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cognidox / OfficeToPDF

A command line tool to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDFs
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Outlook and Word will both shutdown if running the OfficeToPDF commandline tool #53

Closed wenzai007 closed 4 years ago

wenzai007 commented 4 years ago

While I am using outlook to view and deal with messages, and at same time I want to convert some messages into PDF, but whenever I run the command line .\OfficeToPDF.exe '.\outlookmessage.msg' 'convertedNewFile.pdf' it will shutdown the Word.exe and Outlook.exe, which is very inconvenient, why it would act like this,

After debugging, I found that in OutlookConverter.cs `try { app = (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application)Marshal.GetActiveObject("Outlook.Application"); } catch(System.Exception) { app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application(); running = false; } )

// If we were not already running, quit and release the outlook object if (app != null && !running) { ((Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._Application)app).Quit(); }` Why would we affect the current running app and session? Could we not shutdown the Outlook and Word app when running the converting job?

wenzai007 commented 4 years ago

Just found out that there is a /noquit switch, then it's fine to close it. Also I will abandon the PR https://github.com/cognidox/OfficeToPDF/pull/54